Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial Policies in Europe

by Thilo Lang (Editor), Franziska Görmar (Editor)

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- 1 Re-thinking Regional and Local Policies in Times of An Introduction.- PART SOCIO-SPATIAL POLARISATION IN THE EU AND QUESTIONS OF POWER.- 2 Geographical Uneven Development and Regional A Conversation.- 3 "New" Questions of Peripherality in Europe or How Neoliberal Austerity Contradicts Socio-spatial Cohesion.- 4 State Power, Spatial Inequality, and Geographical Notes on Method.- PART REGIONAL AND COHESION POLICIES (RE-)PRODUCING SOCIO-SPATIAL DISPARITIES.- 5 Re-conceptualising Territorial Cohesion Through the Prism of Spatial Critical Perspectives on Academic and Policy Discourses.- 6 Questioning the Convergence of Cohesion and Innovation Policies in Central and Eastern Europe.- 7 Divergent Paths to The (Unintended) Consequences of a Place-Based Cohesion Policy.- 8 Urban Growth Pole Policy and Regional Old Wine in New Bottles?.- 9 Reproducing Socio-spatial Unevenness through the Institutional Logic of Dual Housing Policies in Hungary.- PART RESPONSES TO REGIONAL POLARISATION AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES.- 10 Out-Migration from Peripheries - How Cumulated Individual Strategies Affect Local Development Capacities.- 11 Towards a Progressive Local Development Approach - Insights from Local Community Initiatives in Hungary and Romania.- 12 Bypassing Structural Innovative Firms in Peripheral Regions.- 13 Leading through Image Making? On the Limits of Emphasising Agency in Structurally Disadvantaged Rural Places.- PART ABOUT THE RELEVANCE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR POLITICAL PRACTICE AND POLICY MAKING.- 14 Translating Scientific Encouraging Reflective Policies as a Chance for Change.- 15 Understanding and Going beyond the Regional Policy Conceptual Contributions to Studying Socio-spatial Polarisation in Europe.

408 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2019